Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud), page 3

Many of the issues observed with the CRA may arise from the use of the term “commercial” with a definition from the Blue Guide/NLF when in fact the origin was some different & specific usage.
https://the.webm.ink/the-comprehension-error-behind-the-cra-issue

Twitter seems to now have the same philosophy as RyanAir - that "a satisfied customer is a missed monetisation opportunity".

The lead attorney for GitHub arguing that #Copilot using #OpenSource is fair use following precedent from #Oracle Vs #Google is Annette Hurst, who represented Oracle and personally argued against the verdict in public on Twitter.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/

@mastohost
I had add-to-list fail just now. Is that likely to be related?

@apps UI request: when I search for a user there will be no tags, cache or messages that match. Please can you switch to the Accounts tab when the others are empty after a search? Also perhaps highlight which tabs are not empty?

Many thanks! Loving it.

@apps
Is the fact the server is PixelFed something you attempt to detect or is it always necessary to manually flick the switch?

@dirkhh
Well yes, that was my point ?

@osi @lightweight @msw @larsmb

@lightweight
I don't hear that skewed usage when I'm out representing OSI in Europe. Do you have any data to back up the assertion? @osi certainly does not treat open source as excluding reciprocal licensing, tacitly or expressly.

@msw

@msw
I'm unclear of your point. I'm not disagreeing that big tech and their VCs have fought hard to make people fear reciprocal licensing. I am disagreeing that they have succeeded at making "open source" mean "no copyleft" except in the minds of advocates who already disliked OSI's impudence in defining a viable term for software freedom that didn't include "free", especially because it worked.

@lightweight @osi

@larsmb
I disagree somewhat. The VC sickness has sucked a lot of the air out of the room to be sure, but both MPL and EPL are still breathing, still copyleft and still considered open source.

There is more to reciprocal licensing than just FSF licenses, and having work for software freedom through open source undermined by a proxy war against the *GPL is unhelpful.

The best way to address strip-miners is to call them out on it, not pitch open source vs free software.

@msw @lightweight @osi

@oemb1905
I have little patience for arguments about linguistic framing that also contrast "Permissive" vs GPL when the GPL is itself a permissive license. That usage is an indicator of a partisan actor.
https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/27/all-open-source-licenses-are-permissive/

@larsmb @msw @lightweight @osi

@apps
My only caveat to "Yes" is most of those things are trackers and I'd like some way to turn this off or request case by case (for example only expand on LongClick)

@apps Please can you add some indication in the Android notification which account is involved? I have 4 and it's ... Tricky.

@apps
It's there! Thanks so much ?

@lxo
Alex, your amazing outburst seems to speak mostly to the bubble you inhabit.You don't know me or what I do any more so you're projecting on a memory of a stranger as a cipher for your hatred of OSI. Try reading what you wrote as if I said it to you, it fits.

I sense you won't take heed of this and will continue to accuse & lecture me with projections of your own issues, so I will indeed block you as you asked. I regret this as I usually enjoy discussions with friends from FSF and FSFE.

@lxo
I am unaware of entering your timeline; I did not name or @ you until you came at me. I did not address your team (I have no idea even of an address to use for that).

I just found you on my personal timeline, accusing me of things that I have no recollection of doing, demanding I submit to your vocabulary and conceptual frame, and describing anything that you consider not to do so as an "attack". Alex, does it surprise you that your intrusion and ongoing harassment are unwelcome?

@lxo
I regret your choice not to find common cause with people who mostly agree with you and focus on what you think is a difference & a conceptual harm. That choice is being used, right now, by corporate lawyers as an exemplar to undermine our common cause of software freedom & persuade the European Commission patents in software standards are OK.

Your hostility measurably impedes the work I and others are doing to prevent a very real harm. That's why I'm asking you to stop.

@lxo
Seriously, Alex? First you never met me until at least the late-2000s (at FISL) so "since 1998" is fantasy. Second I have taken the greatest care never to attack you (or indeed FSF-LA) despite your constant provocations. I think your anger towards OSI is blinding you.

I had hoped to count you as a friend after our meetings at FISL, but clearly you prefer to treat me as an cipher in your ancestral hatred of OSI (the issues with which I actually sought to correct).

@lxo
Please stop, Alex. You harm us all.

@ehashman
FYI @osi on Mastodon is routinely getting replies to posts that at best unreasonably promote FSF and at worst are ... well, ugly.

This generally did not happen on Twitter. It's quite upsetting given how positive the rest of the experience here is. I'm not quite sure how to deal with them.